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[Goodvibrations2013]

[gregoir]

The return of Phish at Hampton.  me,, my best friend in the world and our band back together.  doesn't get much better.  

[Karen]

The Mickey Hart Band, Bear's Picnic 2012.

 

It was a mind blowing and exquisitely beautiful show.

 

[Goodvibrations2013]

The return of Phish at Hampton.  me,, my best friend in the world and our band back together.  doesn't get much better.  

[August West]

dancing the night away with my favorite dance partner, Grassroots.  

[Chip]

19 years ago, PFunk Allstars with real PFunk allstars the only ones not there were dead, not the young bucks that tour as allstars now.  Bernie, Boostsie, George, Hampton, etc.  Also only show I saw with Mothership prop that landed and took George.  4 hour show in Providence.

[Spidergawd]

The Mickey Hart Band, Bear's Picnic 2012.

 

It was a mind blowing and exquisitely beautiful show.

 

 

This closely follows SCI at Rothbury 2009, one of the finest concert experiences I've ever had.  Who remembers the GIANT red ball??

 

[hoagie]

MOE.DOWN LINEUP 2003

moe. 
The Flaming Lips
Rusted Root
They Might be Giants
Yonder Mountain String Band
Xavier Rudd
Umphrey's McGee
Reid Genauer and AOD
Antigone Rising
Vorcza Trio
Al and The Transamericans
Swamp Donkey
Peter Prince and The Trauma Unit
Guy Malone
Jimmy Swift Band
Lynch
Marlow 
OM Trio
Penny Jo Pullus
Nero
Truffle Bluff

[insolent cur]

20 years ... i'd have to say so.much.good.music!  to delineate further would be impossible.

[Feck]

would hugging my brother when i saw him for the first time after 9/11 count , if not prolly pete's 90th bday sing along 

[In A Silent Way]

Hard to pick just one, but one that stands out is Steely Dan in 1993. The show opened with the band playing an instrumental medley (Royal Scam/Bad Sneakers/Aja). At the end of the song, Becker and Fagen came out from opposite sides and shook hands center stage. The crowd erupted as if they'd been holding it in for 19 years.

[Depends]

David Bowie 50th Birthday

Jan 9 1997

 

[Lemireacle]

Way too many to choose from over the last 20 years, I don't know where to begin!   I am definitely waiting for the next one though!

[concert andy]

20 years ... i'd have to say so.much.good.music!  to delineate further would be impossible.

 

This.  SO I will just give the highlights:

 

Phish:  2.0 Reunion, first set.

6/29/00 PNC

8/14/10 - Hartford

 

Non Phish:

Tom Petty - PNC - Summer 1999

Eric Clapton - 6/21/2001.

 

 

 

 

 

Eric Clapton Band Lineup

Eric Clapton – guitar / vocals
Andy Fairweather Low – guitar / vocals
Billy Preston – hammond organ 
David Sancious – keyboards / guitar / vocals 
Nathan East – bass / vocals
Steve Gadd – drums

 

 

 

Set List

01. Key To The Highway
02. Reptile 
03. Got You On My Mind 
04. Tears In Heaven 
05. Bell Bottom Blues 
06. Change The World 
07. My Father's Eyes
08. River Of Tears
09. Going Down Slow
10. She's Gone
11. I Want A Little Girl
12. Travelin’ Light
13. Hoochie Coochie Man
14. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
15. Cocaine
16. Wonderful Tonight
17. Layla
18. Sunshine Of Your Love (encore)
19. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (encore)

[Jersey Thug]

This closely follows SCI at Rothbury 2009, one of the finest concert experiences I've ever had.  Who remembers the GIANT red ball??

 

 

i sure do...it tried to eat us!!!      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spidergawd]

Dammit!  I have to wait until I get home to see those photos.  What an incredible weekend that was.

[Jersey Thug]

it's really hard to pick a favorite live music moment, so i'll name 5 and know i'm leaving a bunch out that i'll kick myself for later

 

Neil Young solo acoustic at the Tower Theater in '98

Phish at Clifford Ball, Night 1, Set 1

Phish at Big Cypress NYE 2000 - the crazy long midnight to sunrise set

Stevie Wonder at Mohegan Sun in 2006

Cream at MSG (all three nights) in 2005

[Jersey Thug]

Dammit!  I have to wait until I get home to see those photos.  What an incredible weekend that was.

 

it really was one of the most fun weekends of ever, despite how it wrapped up for Jason and i  

 

though we made the best of it in the end...camping in the VIP lakeside area after everyone else went home and we had the whole place to ourselves was nice

[TheDHJ]

Sex Pistols, 1995, front row singing along to every word.

[Royal]

The Beach Boys at SPAC 2012.  The  harmonies changed my life.

[Jambear]

The Deep End show in Nola with Mule and countless guests.

[insolent cur]

some high points from the last 20 years:

 

driving in the pouring rain in nola, with my brother behind the wheel, dave malone (rads) in the front passenger seat, and paul barrere sitting next to me in the back seat, as we belted out beatles tunes together.  it was ~3am.

 

seeing dr. john as the night tripper.  i've seen mac play more times than i can recall, but only once as the night tripper with all the gris gris and whatnot.

 

dancing drunk in frenchy's art gallery, to ed volker tickling the ivories on the piano in the front room.  just the two of us, with me singing along while he played blues standards after a rads show.

 

sars-stock in toronto.  the whole thing.  start to finish.

 

roger waters' the wall in buffalo a couple years ago.

 

watching jeff beck from side stage.

 

standing 5 feet in front of bb king.  was like a private lesson.

 

having buddy guy, as i fiddled with my camera getting ready to take his picture, say to me (into the microphone) as he pointed at me "don't fuck it up!"  you can hear this on the recording of one of his vibes sets.

 

watching my parents play with their musical group, to a packed house in concord, nh, a few years back.

[Jersey Thug]

it's really hard to pick a favorite live music moment, so i'll name 5 and know i'm leaving a bunch out that i'll kick myself for later

 

Neil Young solo acoustic at the Tower Theater in '98

Phish at Clifford Ball, Night 1, Set 1

Phish at Big Cypress NYE 2000 - the crazy long midnight to sunrise set

Stevie Wonder at Mohegan Sun in 2006

Cream at MSG (all three nights) in 2005

 

yeah...how could i have forgotten my first concerts ever?   The Jackson Victory Tour in 1984 at Madison Square Garden and Giants Stadium.  in retrospect there were lots of tensions and issues with this tour, but as a 12 year old kid who was completely gaga over MJ...these shows were a dream come true!

[insolent cur]

yeah...how could i have forgotten my first concerts ever?   The Jackson Victory Tour in 1984 at Madison Square Garden and Giants Stadium.  in retrospect there were lots of tensions and issues with this tour, but as a 12 year old kid who was completely gaga over MJ...these shows were a dream come true!

 

that would be 30 years.

 

if we're going back 30 years or more...i'll have to start pulling stuff out of the deep recesses of my mind (eg: hanging with benny goodman backstage at carnegie hall; or having johnny cunningham playing in our living room; or seeing sarah vaughan at the hollywood bowl while sitting in michael tilson thomas' box, etc.).  i grew up (and still am) surrounded by live music.

[sarah b.]

I love the monkees.

 

a highlight: Taking my little sister to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, last fall.

 

Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, every year I've been

 

Gathering of the Vibes, ditto

 

The Monkees were really good, in December.

 

Seeing Matt Abts get excited like a little kid to see Bernard Purdie playing his kit at Mexicali at Melvin Sparks' 65th birthday show in 2004 was pretty cool.

 

So many amazing moments in venues and on fields of many sizes, really.

 

Paul McCartney, 2002, I think.

 

Second row at The Who, several years ago.

 

Donna the Buffalo, many venues.

 

Govt. Mule in CT, post-vibes, w/Sums and other wonderful people.

 

Post-Gelston Castle w/Joe and Laura's cousin with salt potatoes.

 

Filming a friend in his parents' living room.

 

Clapton/Winwood at the Garden.

 

Warren and friends/ish at Irving Plaza.

 

Mountain Jam, every time.

 

Neil Young, 2nd Row at the Palace.

 

Phil and Friends at the Tower Theatre, one year, and on Halloween, another.

 

Phish is always terrible.

[Depends]

some high points:

 

seeing dr. john as the night tripper.  i've seen mac play more times than i can recall, but only once as the night tripper with all the gris gris and whatnot.

The 1st time I saw Dr John was as the night tripper, but that was way over 20 years ago.

Nevilles/Rads/Subdudes NOLA House of Blues 1995(?) two nights during JazzFest

[Jwheelz]

20 years for me encompasses every single music experience I've ever had being that I was 8 at the beginning of the time period

 

Let me do my best though, in no particular order:

 

1. Big Apple to the Big Easy benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina - Radio City Music Hall: Dave Matthews brings out Trey Anastasio and they close his set with a performance of Three Little Birds. After they leave the stage the audience keeps going singing "don't worry, about a thing, cause every little thing is going to be all right" the entire chorus refrain for what felt like about twenty minutes. Eventually they come back out for the encore and finish the song a second time.  It was musical bliss, felt so spontaneous and so real. Incredible.

 

2. Keller Williams and Martin Sexton - The Electric Factory in Philadelphia: I don't remember the exact year and I'm too lazy to look it up but these two guys toured together one year. The entire show was one of my musical highlights because they both each played a full set followed by another full set together. I must've gotten four hours of music in this one show and I'll never forget it.

 

3. Mickey Hart Band - Bears Picnic Music Festival 2012. Simply mind blowing, sure I might have gotten a little beside myself and had to take a minute or two back at the campsite during set break but despite this it was amazing

 

4. moe. - Gathering of the Vibes 2011: musically I don't know if this counts in terms of the best I've seen but in terms of the moment, everything was just right, beautiful sky, approaching sunset and the heat was sort of starting to break a little bit finally. Had my mind in just the right place and was with some new friends, my first vibes and everything just clicked...

 

I'm sure there's more but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment

[tyedyedee]

Hard to pick just one, but one that stands out is Steely Dan in 1993. The show opened with the band playing an instrumental medley (Royal Scam/Bad Sneakers/Aja). At the end of the song, Becker and Fagen came out from opposite sides and shook hands center stage. The crowd erupted as if they'd been holding it in for 19 years.

 

that is in my number 5...i saw the ma show of the same tour and i had goosebumps the entire time...it was flawless and the energy and musicianship was incredible...it didnt hurt that it was at great woods before the grass went away, so i was on a lush lawn, looking up at the stars...such a perfect night with my best friend

 

number 4 is the neil young and crazy horse show i just saw last nov...it was just everything i wanted it to be and more and i had the most excellent time...wonderful company, in my hometown and my favorite rock band of all time playing like so many other bands TRY to

 

3 is a few years back (late 90s?) i caught my old faves the indigo girls at the south shore music circus in ma...if you havent been, its a theater in the round and the "worst" seats are like 12th row...and the stage spins so you always have a good view...it was like a singalong party and the band was so good and the audience was so enthusiastic and the vibe was just incredible, moreso than any show of theirs i had seen

 

2 is mini vibes masters of bluegrass night was epic...standing at vassar clements feet and worshiping the bluegrass gods by dancing and smiling and singing was my own slice of heaven and the bluegrass experience i judge all others by...simply perfection

 

best of all was clifford ball...some of the most consistently brilliant music that was ripping up countless numbers of minds, led to the most religious experience i have had at a phish show...the scene, the music, the people...it was perfection

 

lots of other shows are so close to making this list, like the CSNY 2000 show...and the ray lamontagne show a few years back...

[TEO]

Hmm....Rolling Stones at UConn?  Jeff Beck at Jazz Fest?  Roger Waters in Boston?  Clark, Ponty & DeMola at The Egg?  Etta James, Ray Charles, The Neville Brothers, The Radiators, Hmm...so many more great live experiences from which to choose.

[KittyKindBud]

The Mickey Hart Band, Bear's Picnic 2012.

 

It was a mind blowing and exquisitely beautiful show.

 

That what came first to my mind too ...(and I was right in FRONT of Mickey....)......

[TEO]

Ah yes, memory has been jogged.

 

SARS stock was fantastic!

 

Dr. John as The Night Tripper transported me to another dimension.

 

Mr. Buddy Guy

 

Kung Fu for Butch's birthday celebration was absolutely face melting.

[Karen]

This closely follows SCI at Rothbury 2009, one of the finest concert experiences I've ever had.  Who remembers the GIANT red ball??

 

 

 

The giant red ball....I'll never forget that!    That was an AMAZING show.  

[Goodvibrations2013]

The Beach Boys at SPAC 2012.  The  harmonies changed my life.

Would of loved to see them in the early seventies.  Long Live Beach Boys 1967 - 1974

[insolent cur]

Hmm....Rolling Stones at UConn?  Jeff Beck at Jazz Fest?  Roger Waters in Boston?  Clark, Ponty & DeMola at The Egg?  Etta James, Ray Charles, The Neville Brothers, The Radiators, Hmm...so many more great live experiences from which to choose.

 

oh yeah...etta with ackroyd looking over my shoulder...and that egg show was sick. (w/in the last 20 years)

 

also i saw dizzy gillespie three times; saw srv three times; saw peter tosh three times; jorma played my guitar in my living room; saw john lee hooker backed by the stones; and i saw the beach boys in '76.   (none of those shows were in the last 20 years)

 

i'm sure i'll think of a few more.

[sarah b.]

Jazz fest (nola)
Rhythm & roots (RI)
Paul Simon '91 (21 years ago)
Zen Tricksters, a bunch of times, including nights of legends
Rumor has it, Westbury, NY
Reckoning, various
Jelly Band, a few
Any friend rock, really.
Simon & garfunkel, CSNY, tom petty & the heartbreakers

[Erinisme]

dancing with Robert Randolph and the Family band during Shake Your Hips at the Brooklyn Bowl

 

Jamorqui at Nokia during their only us tour in 10 years

[In A Silent Way]

Umphrey's McGee 8/11/12 at the Klein. We had front row tickets, but the security guard told us "the show likes everybody up front, so we're not holding the line. Better grab a spot now." We spent the whole show leaning on the front of the stage.

 

NRBQ at Toad's Place November 2012. I hadn't seen them in almost 20 years, not since the Big Al Anderson days. The new lineup was killing it, and Terry Adams was as crazy as ever.

 

Project/Object at Toad's Place with Ike Willis and Ray White. Zappa Plays Zappa may be technically perfect, but Andre's band "draws the eyebrows on it," especially with Ray & Ike.

[kramer]

u-melt's palindrome set at The Wheelhouse in Rhode Island... When I realized what was happening after we reached the apex of the set, I nearly lost my mind!!! David Byrne at Bonnaroo in 2004... After wading through waist-deep mud pits all day, his set was the first time I felt like I could let loose and DANCE!! He has such an incredible stage presence... So charismatic! The moment during the 2nd day of Superball when Phish opened with Tube and everyone at the front of the audience launched a rainbow of beach balls into the air... The music lifted me up at the same moment that those balls flew into the air... Diddy turned to me and said, "just when I think this band can't surprise me anymore, something like THAT happens!" Seeing Ani DiFranco from literally feet away at Tipitina's in New Orleans during one of the Jazz Fest weekends last year. She is such a passionate, spunky, amazing musician and human being!

[Deadshow Dan]

20 years keeps us in the era of Jerry

Would have to check dates and stuff

[tyedyedee]

i regret not including my favorite jerry moment  at MSG in 1994 in my list

it was the sat night show and i was miracled into the first row at the beginning of the 2nd set

i was still a total gneub and was about being so close

i just stood there and felt like i was at church and then he played 'standing on the moon' with me just a couple feet below him and i balled my eyes out

he saw and smiled and winked at me and i signed "i love you" to him in ASL and he did it back ::swoon::

 

i like to think that perhaps he remembered meeting me in albany in 93 but know he likely didnt, but that didnt matter...it was a special moment

 

he may not have been at the top of his game i nthose years, but he still had "it"

[Erinisme]

and how could I forget Superball IX...made some great friends, spent some time with friends I LOVE....and amazing music

[gregoir]

some others

 

Widespread Panic Halloween 2003.  screw the haters I love  me some George panic and that show ripped.  I was somehow convinced that there were secret speakers under my seat making it sound so good.

 

Disco Biscuits New Years 09.  After an extremely challenging year personally celebrated with some of the best people on the planet and man they brought it.  Countdown medely, Shem rah ending, beautiful Mirrors, and my first time haring Naeba which blew me away.  I remember it being a night of loving my scene and band again and realizing life will go on and everything will be fine.  Walking through the garbage piles of times square at 4 AM was surreal.  

 

10,000 Lakes Festival 2007.  Never has a fest felt like such a home to me.  Beautiful location, great vibes and people and stunning sets by Umphrey's, biscuits,Ratdog and Keller to name a few.

 

Rancid Roseland Ballroom 1998 or 99?.  Life won't wait tour.  So much fucking fun.  Saw them again last year and they still go it.  I think I have seen them more then any punk band and I love it every time.

 

Ozzy Retirement Sucks Tour RPI Fieldhouse 96.  Senior in high school and Korn and Life Of Agony opened up.  kick ass

[Occifer Boland]

the whole weekend of Summit Music Festival 2001... this was the last festival i attended with my brother before he passed on..  and not just for that reason.. there was some great music.. met some awesome people

[Occifer Boland]

but.. i guess if it is is favorite live experience...  i have a few in my mind.. but i will throw out Primus set from this past year's Vibes...  so much fukn fun...  it was awesome to watch the preperation of the pig's head and the TLC and hard work that went to getting it wired up...  then just the shenanigans and crazy costumes throughout the set...  plus, i am a HUGE primus fan.. so being blessed by Les topped it off... had a lot of fun.. danced hard..  made people feel uncomfortable with my wig and white trash teeth..  WIN

[Mama Kel]

This is just impossible but I'll try...

 

Simon & Garfunkel DC in 2003 ( I think)  has to top all else. S & G are my first memory of liking music as a child. So to see them live was epic!!

 

CSNY @ MSG in early 2000's - amazing

 

2 is mini vibes masters of bluegrass night was epic...standing at vassar clements feet and worshiping the bluegrass gods by dancing and smiling and singing was my own slice of heaven and the bluegrass experience i judge all others by...simply perfection

 This! totally amazing!!

 

Bob Dylan in Buffalo spring 96 I think - in some community college gym. I had seen him dozens of times before this but he put on a 3 hour show, mostly acoustic, with maybe 200 people there - AMAZING!!

 

My first Dead show of course! 3/23/91 at the Knick!!

 

JGB - can't remember where or the year but a girl came dressed all sparkly, mostly paint, with a silver star balloon & they played Shining Star & Papa pointed to her & smiled - so amazing!

 

The year Vibes was at Plattsburgh (98 I think) and we went from Vibes at Plattsburgh, which was amazing....by far my favorite vibes...drove to Hotlanta & went on Further tour, following it up the east coast to SPAC. Me & Frank were just together about a year at that point. So fun

 

There are so many more, Dead tours, Dylan shows, & others I am forgetting......I'm one lucky girl!

 

Oh & I suck at dates!

[Mama Kel]

already recalling more....

 

 

seeing Baba Olatunji at the Sweatglands

 

seeing Mickey Hart & planet drum in NYC & meeting Baba in the audience at the show - while Frank was wearing a Baba shirt - he found that funny!

 

Rowan, Rice, Trischka & Doc Watson in Long Island at a small theatre - wanna say Huntington LI?

 

Shakti at the Egg - Shankar, Zakir Hussein & John McLoughlin

 

yeah I can't remember these dates either They were all pre-kids so pre 2005

[Tabbooma]

One of the greatest shows of all times, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary at MSG 

 

Jerry Lee, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Dion, Sting, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, John Fogerty, Jackson Browne, Smokey Robinson, John Legend,BB King, Sting, Sam Moore, Darleen Love, Tom Morello, Billy Joel and one happy Tabbooma

[Lostsailr]

Acoustic Hot Tuna with David Bromberg at the Mahawie Theater in Gr. Barington ... about 16 years ago??

Was the most intimate setting for such amazing musicians...all the banter and ribbing between David and Jack was audible (Jack, not so much, lol)

[Rayzeeday]

meeting my wife of 16yrs. at Pearly Baker. a dead cover band out of New Bedford Ma.  I still remember the first sighting as she bolted for the dance floor for Shakedown Street!  Priceless!!!!!

[August West]

dancing the night away with my favorite dance partner, Grassroots.  

 

 

i decided